Alpha House will be having its annual barbecue and auction on Saturday, April 20 at the West Side Recreation and Park District, 500 Cascade Place.

Dinner is at 5 p.m. and live auction at 6 p.m.

You can dine in or take out.

Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for children 6-12 and children 5 and under are free.

Raffle tickets are being sold for $10 for a four-pack of one-day park hopper tickets to Disneyland valued at $500, as well as raffle tickets for $5 for a beautiful quilt donated by Joan Holton.

The quilt will be on display at Alpha House Thrift Store. 411 Center St.

Raffle and dinner tickets can be purchased by contacting Alpha House at (661)763-4357. You do not have to be present to win the raffle. For those that are not familiar with Alpha House, it is are a shelter here in Taft providing services to woman and children who are victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and homeless.

The shelter is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days week providing shelter, peer counseling, case management and most important moral support to the families who come through the doors.

Alpha House is funded on grants, donations and fundraisers, the auction and barbecue is the biggest fundraiser of the year helping to subsidize funding for the facility.